Exhibits

Upcoming Exhibitions

ANCESTRAL MINDSCAPES

September 3 – October 25, 2019

Ancestral Mindscapes is an autobiographical collaboration using video, sound and photography to explore the intersection of madness, indigeneity, colonialism, environmental destruction and the healing power of nature.

Ancestral Mindscapes is a collaboration between Rick Miller, who self-identifies as a Mad artist in discovery of his Indigenous ancestry; Jules Koostachin, a Cree artist and academic; and Geneviève Thibault, a Gaspésienne photographer.

Past Exhibitions:

FAULT LINES

May 3 – June 15, 2019

Acceptance of change and change through acceptance—Fault Lines explores processes emblematic of observant insight and growth gained from conditions of challenge and disruption. It approaches disturbance with openness and optimism, and challenges the problematic and commonly accepted ideas about disability and aesthetics. Fault Lines honours how these nuanced investigations of brokenness reconcile in relation to the unique formation of identities, experiences, and ways of being.

OIUTLIERS ON TOUR

March 8 – April 19, 2019

Outliers on Tour is bringing the outsiders in. Stemming from Tangled Art + Disability’s Tangled on Tour program that ran from 2014 to 2017, this exhibition invites Disability-identified artists from across Ontario to consider how the city has been built and constructed as a concept by those on the periphery. This exhibition is part of Myseum Intersections, Revisionist Toronto, a festival of collaborative exhibits, events, workshops, and tours exploringintersectional perspectives of Toronto.

THROUGH A TIRED EYE

January 24 – February 23, 2019

Retino-blastoma, monocular tunnel-vision, extreme light-sensitivity, floaters, flashers, blepharitis, capsular opacification… Through a Tired Eye is Bruce Horak’s interpretation of how he sees the world. Using acrylic, oil, canvas, sculpture, sound, and light, Horak moves art off the wall and into the space for an immersive, tactile experience. The portraits and landscapes give the viewer a unique experience of the world as the artist sees them. They can be felt and heard in a new and dynamic way.

FLOURISHING: SOMEHOW WE STAY ATTUNED

September 7 – October 19, 2018

As our understandings of disability shift, we must consider how our definitions of the surrounding world must also shift. FLOURISHING: SOMEHOW WE STAY ATTUNED evokes new dynamics of the disabled experience in its attempts to re-world the narratives of non-normative futures of embodiment.

THREE WINDOWS: FLOURISHING

October 11 – October 21, 2018

Aislinn Thomas’ THREE WINDOWS seeks to playfully reclaim domestic space as a site of imagination and possibility. For this exhibition, she creates a video installation from footage taken of three windows in her apartment. She thinks of windows as thresholds between domestic space and the rest of the world, a site of permeability, exchange and chance.

FLOURISHING: SOMEWHERE WE STAY AUTHENTIC

November 2 – December 19, 2018

SOMEWHERE WE STAY AUTHENTIC offers glimpses into efforts to navigate potentially overwhelming terrain, negotiating versions of landscapes in which we are able to thrive. We can never truly escape our past, but perhaps in looking honestly at who and where we are, we open ourselves up to the potential of creating of what will be.

MAD ONES: FLOURISHING

November, 2018

MAD ONES is a new theatrical script written by writer/actor/poet Laura Burke.Burke was awarded creation and dramaturgy funding from Arts Nova Scotia for the development of a piece under the same name in 2016.